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What happens on Friday?
by torginus 8mo ago
What happens on Friday?
- TheDong 8mo agoFriday is the deadline that the secretary of defense, Hegseth, gave Anthropic for complying with the "allow the military version of claude to do mass surveillance and autonomous killing" order.
- wahnfrieden 8mo agoSecretary of war
- j45 8mo agoI suspect when given contradictory options maybe there’s a their or fourth option. Move to the moon!
- lukan 8mo agoThe deadline given to them by Hegseth runs out. "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened Anthropic, saying officials could invoke powers that would allow the government to force the artificial intelligence firm to share its novel technology in the name of national security if it does not agree by Friday to terms favorable to the military" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/24/pentago https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/24/pentago... https://archive.is/ln5M0 https://archive.is/ln5M0
- torginus 8mo agoIsn't this entirely theather? I'm sure Musk's XAI would have no qualms about working with the Department That Used To Be Called Department Of Defense. Hell, there's a significant sharing of people between them and SpaceX, meaning the company's full of people with security clearances working on defense contracts. Anthropic also seems to have dropped their safety pledge in a matter that I'm sure is completely unrelated.
- lukan 8mo ago"Isn't this entirely theather? I'm sure Musk's XAI would have no qualms about working with the Department That Used To Be Called Department Of Defense." Sure, but Claude seems to be considered better and the US military does not want something second class.
- olav 8mo agoThe could shut down the company and `rm -rf *` all their assets, no?